Category Archives: Hope

The Secrets of Life

Posted on 21 January, 2013 by PoetJanstie

The riptide pulled and weighed us down, swimming in our shoals. It bent us in our will to win, oh weary, sorry souls. Oh tiresome, terrifying days when scholars moved to preach that all of Christendom was ours, but always … Continue reading →

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Posted in Ballad, experience, family, Fear, Heroes, Hope, Love, poem, poetry, wisdom | 38 Comments

Christmas Tree

Posted on 22 December, 2012 by PoetJanstie

Christmas tree O, Christmas tree, bring me a little magic so I will see where I can dwell in places far away and hear you tell the tales of yesterday. Christmas tree O, Christmas tree, bring hope of dreams as … Continue reading →

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Posted in children, Hope, nostalgia, Pleasure, poem, poetry, Wonder | 1 Comment

Hypno-Vision

Posted on 10 October, 2012 by PoetJanstie

Conscious of a noise. Hypnopompic. There’s something or someone doing something familiar but very vague. No synapses connecting to reason. Feeling a thirst that puts the ‘P’ in pang the ‘D’ in desire the ‘G’ in good deep longing … Continue reading →

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Posted in children, Ekphrastic, Free Verse, Hope, nostalgia, poem, poetry, Wonder | 13 Comments

An Ekphrastic Experience…

Posted on 25 September, 2012 by PoetJanstie

If this is Ekphrastic, which I’ve heard recently described as one of the ugliest words in the English language, then what follows is the complete irony. It also demonstrates what little fodder poets need to inspire them to feats of … Continue reading →

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Posted in animals, Collaboration, courage, Heroes, Hope, Injury, Love, melancholy, nostalgia, poem, poetry, sadness, War, Wonder | 5 Comments

Collaboration …

Posted on 9 September, 2012 by PoetJanstie

Originally posted on Musings and Smatterings:
Decline By John Anstie When you have given all, then lost, is this the colour of blame? The love that drips from your sweet lips and drowns someone in shame. When young, their hue…

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Posted in Collaboration, Hope, Love, melancholy, nostalgia, poem, poetry, sadness | 2 Comments

Waiting for The Sun ..

Posted on 10 June, 2012 by PoetJanstie

(Haiku for an English summer) Our sun hats, resting on the newel post in the hall, are trying to tell us something..

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Posted in Haiku, Hope, melancholy, nostalgia, poem, poetry, Weather | 2 Comments

Past Masters

Posted on 4 May, 2012 by PoetJanstie

(A Clarean Sonnet) If I had ever taken note at school, those moments often shunned by this poor fool, of literature, philosophy and tomes that offered us the sustenance of poems. Be gowned, our masters strenuously plead that sonnets and soliloquy … Continue reading →

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Posted in Clarian, Hope, Love, nostalgia, poem, poetry, Sonnet | 33 Comments

Venus and The Crescent Moon

Posted on 27 March, 2012 by PoetJanstie

An area of high pressure heralded the clearest starlit sky that befell the northern hemisphere. No news or talk of it; no questions why, except among the experts and the poets. I saw her there, shimmering, a vision unexpectedly imbued, … Continue reading →

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Posted in cosmos, emotion, Hope, Love, melancholy, Pleasure, poem, poetry, Wonder | Tagged hope, Love, planets, sky, stars, Universe, wonder | 21 Comments

A Ballad for Stabat Mater

Posted on 18 March, 2012 by PoetJanstie

(A dedication to mothers) Do you remember radiance of one who’s always there the taste of swollen mamilla, the scent of her sweet hair. Whose kiss and gentle healing touch was cooling with a balm that soothed your painful childish … Continue reading →

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Posted in Ballad, emotion, Hope, Love, melancholy, poem, poetry, Religious, sadness | 16 Comments

Midnigh Morvening

Posted on 19 February, 2012 by PoetJanstie

The light it was a brightening on winter’s dawning day it was the midnigh morvening that showed us all the way and how the beasties of the norn did plague the Gothan bride, but facing fiery teeth with Day the … Continue reading →